You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
CLARENCE DARROWAncestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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You can’t get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.
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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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